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[Tableau with Xie Kitchin as the Damsel in distress with St. George and the Dragon] (Alternate Title)

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Photographs

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Photographs

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84.XP.458.15

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Like Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandand his other books, Carroll's photographs are fantasies starring the children of his friends. In this production, the Kitchin siblings enacted the romantic legend of Saint George, the patron saint of England, who slayed a child-eating dragon before it devoured a princess. George later married the rescued princess and converted her pagan town to Christianity. Using crude stagecraft to reference key plot points, Carroll condensed the entire legend into a single scene in which the princess appears as both damsel in distress and bride.

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